TODAY IN HISTORY | APRIL 13 1993: The B.C. government announces it will allow limited logging of the last major old-growth rainforest on Vancouver Island. At least half of Clayoquot Sound was opened to logging. This could be the biggest mistake we’ve ever allowed our government to make. Let’s not allow our past mistakes to …
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For a few logs
You’re telling me that a few logs for shakes or fences would be worth the scientific value of a forest that has been growing uninterrupted since the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Some individuals growing over 1000 years old. Think of the opportunity for our understanding of forest evolution. The sheer diversity of biology …
Old Growth New Funghi
This is the new planet crisis. Changing the weather patterns by increasing Earth’s air and water temperature is the current planet crisis. Next is the Annihilation of the most important ‘natural’ feature of the Earth’s life cycle. That is Old Growth Forest and the intense diversity of the mushrooms that support this Forest. We are …